All About Pattern

This was a knitwear project completely focused on pattern and colour.
Here are some of the knit swatches and the photoshoot I did of them.

Shape Up 2

Part 2 of the project was to pick one design , alter it and make it all in white.
The shape and texture of the garments were important.
After making it I then really wanted to do a photoshoot with the pieces.

Shape Up

Shape Up was a very interesting project where we had to design two completely different collections from the same source of inspiration. My source of inspiration was from chandeliers.
My first collection was Crystal Clear. These are the boards for it:

Falling Fancies- Boards

First Impressions

This was our first project of second year. Based on Rococo stucco and coving I began to design my collection. I paid a visit to my grand-uncle's coving and plasterwork store. Pleating and draping are the main techniques used in the collection inspired by the shapes of the plasterwork.

These our my boards for the project.

wow busy bee!

Ok so during the past few weeks I have been working a lot a lot a lot in the restaurant and havent had too much time for my rojects which really stresses me out! Buuuuuut I am about quarter way through remaking the sandra backlund piece above! I loved this piece as it has so many techniques involved to create a beautiful simple garment! I'm making it in a similar colour but it has more of a ruby feel to it! I had to get extra long knitting needles made for me to make it but hopefully it will be worth it when its finished! I havent decided what I want to do with fabric yet! I need to consider certain things in my choice but hopefully I'll have a few more things done by the end of the Summer!

hello crochet crowd!

Hi there! well over the past fortnight I have been teaching myself crochet from an amazing needlework book I have! I didnt make a garment or object but I did practice by making swatches upon swatches! now the hook I used was very small to the crochet I did was very intricate buuuuuuuuut I have 13 crochet hooks of all different sizes in the post to me at the moment so hopefully i'll get to make a piece before the summer is out! I did like doing crochet I have to admit and for a knit lover I thought that might be the case so I'm happy it is! I have also been practising drawing different figures and will hopefully do more over the next fortnight along with my knitting practise in which I hope to make the hat I designed during ranking and also remake a SANDRA BACKLUND PIECE!!!!!!!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAH I'm so excited I hope time is on my side! :-D! and on another note I would like you all to welcome my brand new mannequin into the world of fashion! I will try to put up more pictures next time Im on my blog looks very dull!
Bubye!

Knitting machine!

Okay, I missed my last update again! I know I'm terrible! My knitting machine fortnight was a bit strange it was hard for me to work the machine going on the instructions I had but towards the end of the first week I had the basics ok and in the second week I tried to work two colours which I found out is extremely hard when you only have one aerial! So a replacement is needed badly! I didnt make anything on the knitting machine yet but I do plan on going back to it and making a garment or something simple before the summer ends! Wow the holidays are actually flying by! Crochet fortnight is half over! Talk soon!